Important Dates

Please note the following important dates for submission of papers:

• Full paper submission has closed (was 11 May 2011)
• Short paper submission has close (14 June 2011)

 

Full papers must contain the following:
Author's name, affiliation, postal and e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers. Authors are requested to ensure that these contact details are correct and it is your responsibility to ensure any changes are made available to the TPC Chair. If a submission is co-authored, the primary recipient of the correspondence should be clearly indicated. An oral presentation of 20 minutes will be allowed to successful students at the conference.

Work-in-Progress (WIP) papers must contain the following:
Author's name, affiliation, postal and e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers. Authors are requested to ensure that these contact details are correct and it is your responsibility to ensure any changes are made available to the TPC Chair. If a submission is co-authored, the primary recipient of the correspondence should be clearly indicated. An oral presentation of 15 minutes will be allowed to successful students at the conference, including time for questions and answers. If too many acceptable Work-in-Progress submissions are received, some might be invited to display their research through a poster session.

All full paper submissions should clearly indicate which topic and sub-topic they are addressing at the conference although the Technical Programme Committee (TPC) reserves the right to make changes.

Note that papers that do not comply with the prescribed formats and deadlines will not be considered for review.

Submissions should be posted via the website. Receipt of submissions will be confirmed. If you do not get a confirmation within 5 working days, please contact the TPC Chair, Gys Booysen at booysegj@telkom.co.za via email. The final deadline for submission of papers is 11 May 2011. Regrettably, no extension will be possible. Submission for the Work-in-Progress (WIP) papers is 14 June 2011. Instructions to the successful authors regarding the submission of their respective presentations will be sent separately.

The TPC reserves the right to alter any of the deadlines. Members of the Technical Programme Committee consisting of academics and leading industry players will review each paper. The TPC member list will be available on the website.

Technical Programme Topics

Access Network Technologies xDSL (ADSL2/2+, SHDSL, VDSL2) Layer 1 Line Codes Ethernet in the First Mile 802.3ah Passive Optical Networks (GPON, EPON) Broadband Powerline (BPL) Radio Technologies Satellite Technologies Mobile Technologies (GSM, UMTS, CDMA) Wireless Local Loop (WLL) WiFi 802.11, WiMAX 802.16 Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) The Digital Home Coding and modulation (network, security, assurance, reliability) Future Wireless Communication QoS	The Intelligent IP Edge Call Feature Servers > Media gateways Trunking gateways Signalling gateways Application servers Voice over IP (H.248, SIP, H.323) MPLS & IP QoS Design Broadband Aggregation Layer 3 VPN
Optical, Transport and Core Networks Access, metro and core transport > CWDM, DWDM technologies Optical switching Metro Ethernet Networks Core IP Networks ASTN, GMPLS	Outside Plant Issues Fuel Cells Alternative energy sources DC power Lightning Protection Interference Optical and Copper cable testing
Network Services E-Commerce IN Services Web services Mobile services (WAP), M-commerce Fixed line SMS Speech Recognition Layer 2 VPLS Layer 3 VPN	Network Management & OSS eTOM, TMN Policy based management Service level agreements Subscriber management Systems integration Fulfilment, Assurance, Billing Security and Privacy
Network Planning & Optimization Network Design Considerations > Dimensioning Rules Outside plant issues Planning issues	Software Software Design Cryptography xHTML, XML, Java Web & Applications servers
Protocols NG-SDH (VCAT, LCAS, GFP etc.) > Ethernet TCP/IP & Layer 3 Routing Protocols MPLS RPR Storage Area Network Protocols Cross-Layer/Hybrid protocols Fixed/Mobile Handover protocols Mobile/wireless protocols	Network Engineering Equipment Engineering Issues Network Design (Traffic engineering, QoS) Dimensioning Rules Modelling and simulation Network Topology (Mesh, self-healing, autoconfiguring) Optimizing P2P/CDN networks Software defined radio networks
Standardisation Initiatives, Innovation & Regulatory ETSI ITU-T, ITU-R, ITU-D IEEE ATM/FR/MPLS Forum DSL Forum Metro Ethernet Forum Telecommunications Developments & Inventions The South African Regulatory Environment Local & International regulations	Internet Services & Applications Internet Trust > Internet Security Internet Performance

The following information is provided so that authors' papers can be successfully integrated to produce a CD-ROM and conference proceedings with a consistent look and feel.

Questions and comments can be forwarded to:

Gys Booysen
SATNAC 2011 TPC chair
Tel: 012 311 1952
Fax: 012 311 4339
email: booysegj@telkom.co.za

Presentation Template
The SATNAC 2011 TPC requires that presentors use the following template for their presentation.
SATNAC Template ( 302KB)

Software
The SATNAC 2011 TPC requires that the documentation is submitted in Acrobat (pdf) version 4 compatible with no password or protection enabled. 

Layout

• All papers must be in English
• Full papers must be no more than 6 pages including abstract and biographies. Papers shorter than 4 pages will not be considered as a full paper.
• WIP papers must be no more than 2 pages including abstract and biographies.
• All papers must start with an abstract of 250 words or less.
• All papers must at least contain a biography of the principle author at the end of the document. Each biography is limited to 50 words and must not contain a photograph. The biography will also be used by session chairpersons to introduce the various presenters.
• Paper size: A4
• Margins:
  top/bottom 0.7" (1.78cm)
  left/right 0.65" (1.65cm)
• Format: two-column format, including figures and tables. Spacing between columns should be 0.2" (0.5cm)
• Font type: Times New Roman
• Text size: 10 pt
• Paper title: 20pt
• Authors name(s): 11 pt
• Heading 1: Times New Roman, 10 pt
• Heading 2: Times New Roman, 10pt, italic
• Line spacing should be 1
• Do not number pages
• Do not include a header/footer note
• Figures and tables must be labelled with clear captions

An example/template of the document structure, styles and layout is available below

SATNAC Template ( 52KB)

Formulas and Equations
All equations and formulas should be placed in text boxes or within the specific equation editor. This ensures that formatting, characters and layout are fixed.

 

Document Naming Conventions
In order to correctly identify and catalogue the paper, the document must be named using the following convention:

<Principle author name>.extension (e.g. Booysen.pdf)
 
If more than one document is submitted, please identify the documents with a unique integer value after the author's name
e.g. Booysen1.pdf, Booysen2.pdf

 

Passwords
Do not password protect any files.

Papers must be uploaded onto the online database and access will be through the the SATNAC website before the relative submission closing dates. All emails to the TPC chair must contain the word "SATNAC" in the subject header.

 

Confirmation on Receipt of Paper
The SATNAC 2011 TPC will acknowledge receipt of documentation within 5 working days of receiving the documentation. If no receipt is received in this period, please contact the TPC chair Gys Booysen.

 

The Review Process
The SATNAC 2011 TPC will review papers based on criteria as described in the following documents:

SATNAC Reviewers Form ( 16KB)

SATNAC Reviewers Form Appendix ( 14KB)

Although reviewers will know the details of the authors when the paper evaluations are performed, their professional integrity will ensure a fair process. Each paper will be reviewed by at least 3 experts. However, if an author would like his/her paper to be reviewed "double blind" then a second version of the paper should be submitted with the necessary information stripped out but the paper must still retain the same physical format.

 

Important: The TPC reserves the right to send all the submissions to a plagiarism search engine.

 

Viruses
All documentation received will be checked for viruses. However, it is the responsibility of the author to ensure that documents are free of viruses. Any document that is infected with a virus and cannot be recovered will be returned to the author, with a request that a clean copy be resubmitted.